Devic's neuromyelitis optica associated with active pulmonary tuberculosis, Tunisia

Devic's Optic neuromyelitis (OND) is a very rare disease defined as a central nervous system (CNS) inflammation resulting in optic neuritis and/or myelitis. The discovery of a highly specific serum autoantibody biomarker for the diagnosis has triggered a great interest in conducting further res...

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Autores principales: Zayet, S., Zaghdoudi, A., Harrabi, H., Goubantini, A., Tiouiri Benaissa, H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7777500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33425364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100828
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author Zayet, S.
Zaghdoudi, A.
Harrabi, H.
Goubantini, A.
Tiouiri Benaissa, H.
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description Devic's Optic neuromyelitis (OND) is a very rare disease defined as a central nervous system (CNS) inflammation resulting in optic neuritis and/or myelitis. The discovery of a highly specific serum autoantibody biomarker for the diagnosis has triggered a great interest in conducting further research into this disease. The association of OND with Tuberculosis (TB) is even rarer and could be an entirely random conjunction. To our knowledge, we reported the first case of Neuromyelitis Optica associated with pulmonary TB in Tunisia.
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spelling pubmed-77775002021-01-07 Devic's neuromyelitis optica associated with active pulmonary tuberculosis, Tunisia Zayet, S. Zaghdoudi, A. Harrabi, H. Goubantini, A. Tiouiri Benaissa, H. New Microbes New Infect Letter to the Editor Devic's Optic neuromyelitis (OND) is a very rare disease defined as a central nervous system (CNS) inflammation resulting in optic neuritis and/or myelitis. The discovery of a highly specific serum autoantibody biomarker for the diagnosis has triggered a great interest in conducting further research into this disease. The association of OND with Tuberculosis (TB) is even rarer and could be an entirely random conjunction. To our knowledge, we reported the first case of Neuromyelitis Optica associated with pulmonary TB in Tunisia. Elsevier 2020-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7777500/ /pubmed/33425364 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100828 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Devic's neuromyelitis optica associated with active pulmonary tuberculosis, Tunisia
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title_short Devic's neuromyelitis optica associated with active pulmonary tuberculosis, Tunisia
title_sort devic's neuromyelitis optica associated with active pulmonary tuberculosis, tunisia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7777500/
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